You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.

A true champion is not only formed in victory. To be defeated makes you learn.

I'm a natural born sniper.

Defeat is only a defeat when we don't learn anything.

What makes your heart leap?

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

But it could be that we, as early as spring, will need to embark on a new policy in order to save one of the cornerstones of European politics: personal freedom of movement.

Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.